This is a complement to Lucid 5.2.8, not a replacement. It will exist alongside Lucid 5.2.8. It is called Lucid Plus because 1) it has 41 extra drivers (thanks to tempestuous); 2) it has extra provisions for HP printers and scanners (thanks to lluamco); 3) it has the 2 series of Pmusic plus the necessary updated multimedia components (ffmpeg). Thanks mainly to rerwin for Lucid Plus because he had the ideas for 1) and 2) and provided numerous tweaks to the infrastructure.

Should you use it? 1) If you have had any driver problems with Lucid 5.2.8.004; 2) if you have an HP printer or scanner and have had trouble configuring it; 3) if you want Lucid with the new ffmpeg and Pmusic 2.x; 4) if you want a Lucid ISO with the latest versions of the Puppy programs contributed by members of the Puppy community. Most people will tell no difference except for the additions. For some Lucid Plus will work better than Lucid 5.2.8.004, but for others Lucid Plus might not work as well. (The updated Puppy programs will be included in an upcoming Lucid 5.2.8.005.)

Here are the extra drivers. All thanks to rerwin, who had the idea to include the drivers and who compiled the list. And of course to tempestuous who built them all in the first place.

acx-mac80211-20110602-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=443985#443985
ath5k-patched-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=444659#444659
tg3-3.110-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=447938#447938
broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=421596#421596 referenced from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=448464#448464 needs preference: "ssb:b43"
Puppy5.1-WPA-hotfix.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=448997#448997 #lost since 5.1.1
rfkill-upgrade-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=452093#452093
xhci-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=453853#453853 already in lupu002-patch-6
r8192se_pci-k2.6.33.2.pet and 3 others from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=462469#462469 needs
preference: "r8192_pci:r8192se_pci"
sn9c102-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=469698#469698 and...
libv4l-0.6.1.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=469701#469701
rt5370sta-v2.5.0.1-k2.6.33.2.pet and 2 others from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=481085#481085
rt3090sta-v2.4.0.4-k2.6.33.2.pet and 2 others from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=494618#494618
orinoco_usb-git20101211-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=495672#495672
iwlagn-firmware-update-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=497421#497421
hid-logitech-k2.6.33.2.pet and perhaps joystick-utils.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=500184#500184
w35und-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=500722#500722
rt3070sta-v2.3.0.1-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=513360#513360 should be made available as an alternative to the latest version, but not included in the ISO.
ar5523-svn-r29060-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=513414#513414
snd-emu10k1-firmware.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=515568#515568
dvb-usb-rtl2832u_k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=522199#522199
hostap-upgrade-k2.6.33.2.pet and prism-NV-firmware-1.8.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=525677#525677
qcaux-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=526920#526920
jmb38x_xd-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=564015#564015
dialup_modem_drivers-agere-lucent-k2.6.33.2-20110913.pet and 2 others from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=564112#564112
dialup_modem_drivers-intel-537-2010_07_19-k2.6.33.2.pet and 3 others from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=564113#564113 Could be left as optional packages.
cdc-acm-update-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=578318#578318
dvb-usb-af903x-k2.6.33.2.pet and 1 other from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=584751#584751
meye-k2.6.33.2.pet from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=592101#592101 This might require a "rules" file to get the driver loaded.

I am trying to make the Help work in Abiword. This is what I am told on the abiword-users list. Maybe someone will get it before I do. (In Lucid there is a menu item for Abiword Help, but it would be much preferable if it worked from the program menu of course.) Add: Doing what they recommend with the browser does not seem to work--I am afraid it has to do with gnomevfs.

My question:

Quote:

The items in the Help Menu start "your default browser" to display the help. How is that accomplished? I ask because it does not work for me. If I start Abiword in a terminal I get the message 'Warning: Operation Not Supported' when I click the Help menu -> Help Contents. This is in Puppy Linux which is not standard in many ways--to get the Help working in one program, I needed a file named 'sensible-browser' to start the default browser. Thanks for any help.

The answer:

Quote:

In the first instance abiword checks the content of the "BROWSER" environment variable to search for prefered installed web browser. If this is not set it then itterates through a list optential browsers and looks for each on the users system. The first one it finds it uses to open the help page. The list is:

May I suggest using your valuable time to find a replacement for AbiWord rather than fixing it? I have wondered for years why it is still in Puppy, I have had problems with it scrambling files, and I seem to recall Barry expressing dissatisfaction with it in his blog sometime ago.

Personally I would prefer Textmaker, but I understand it is not open-source. But there must be some small wordprocessor out there that will handle .doc and .rtf (like it or not we need to open and save Microsoft Office files).

...a replacement for AbiWord rather than fixing it? I have wondered for years why it is still in Puppy, I have had problems with it scrambling files, Personally I would prefer Textmaker, but I understand it is not open-source. But there must be some small wordprocessor out there that will handle .doc and .rtf

I am pretty sure the problem with AW Help is that something is missing in Lucid and probably other Woof-built puppies, because the Portable Linux App of AW 2.8.6 has the same problem, which suggest the problem is not with the way AW is compiled in Puppy. http://portablelinuxapps.org/office/abiword

Add: I am thinking that maybe the default save format should be opendocument odt (the same as LibreOffice.)

The Abiword developer who does the relevant module for the Help sent this patch. The problem seems to be that gnome-vfs is either not present or not right. There are 2 slight problems left: 1) I have never gotten Abiword to compile correctly in Lucid (Lucid uses the one built for Ubuntu Lucid); 2) I am not sure how to use the patch. Details details

Add: Step 1: By compiling the latest stable goffice first I have now gotten Abiword to compile correctly in Lucid.

Add2: PROGRESS! By shamelessly hacking the Abiword code I have an Abiword 2.6.8 running in Lucid *and the Help works*

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